// This layout extends the US layout to bind the german umlauts to alt+a/o/u/s // Severin Kacianka severin _at_ kacianka _dot_ at // look at: http://hektor.umcs.lublin.pl/~mikosmul/computing/articles/custom-keyboard-layouts-xkb.html default partial alphanumeric_keys modifier_keys xkb_symbols "basic" { name[Group1]= "German on the US keyboard"; // Alphanumeric section key { [ grave, asciitilde ] }; key { [ 1, exclam ] }; key { [ 2, at ] }; key { [ 3, numbersign ] }; key { [ 4, dollar ] }; //euro sing on alt 5 key { [ 5, percent, EuroSign ] }; key { [ 6, asciicircum ] }; key { [ 7, ampersand ] }; key { [ 8, asterisk ] }; key { [ 9, parenleft ] }; key { [ 0, parenright ] }; key { [ minus, underscore ] }; key { [ equal, plus ] }; key { [ q, Q ] }; key { [ w, W ] }; key { [ e, E ] }; key { [ r, R ] }; key { [ t, T ] }; key { [ y, Y ] }; //Ü (Ue) key key { [ u, U, udiaeresis, Udiaeresis ] }; //key { [ u, U ] }; key { [ i, I ] }; //Ö (Oe) key key { [ o, O, odiaeresis, Odiaeresis ] }; //key { [ o, O ] }; key { [ p, P ] }; key { [ bracketleft, braceleft ] }; key { [ bracketright, braceright ] }; //Ä (Ae) key key { [ a, A, adiaeresis, Adiaeresis ] }; //ß (ss) key key { [ s, S, ssharp, section ] }; //key { [ s, S ] }; key { [ d, D ] }; key { [ f, F ] }; key { [ g, G ] }; key { [ h, H ] }; key { [ j, J ] }; key { [ k, K ] }; key { [ l, L ] }; key { [ semicolon, colon ] }; key { [ apostrophe, quotedbl ] }; key { [ z, Z ] }; key { [ x, X ] }; key { [ c, C ] }; key { [ v, V ] }; key { [ b, B ] }; key { [ n, N ] }; key { [ m, M ] }; key { [ comma, less ] }; key { [ period, greater ] }; key { [ slash, question ] }; // End alphanumeric section //for whatever reason - I need this to make the keys work include "level3(ralt_switch)" };